The ruling class is keener to reform the American people’s family and spiritual lives than their economic and civic ones. The ruling class’s self-definition is definite and its contempt for opposition on this topic is obvious. It believes the Christian family as well as the Orthodox Jewish one is rooted in and perpetuates the ignorance of religion, divisive social prejudices, and repressive gender roles. They see the traditional family as the greatest barrier to human progress because it looks to its own interests, often defined by mere coherence against outsiders who the ruling class feel most often know better. The family prevents its members from playing their proper roles in social reform and, shudder, it reproduces itself.

Since marriage is the family’s fertile seed, government at all levels, along with “mainstream” academics and media, have waged war on it. They legislate, regulate, and exhort in support not of “the family”…